"I am pleased to say that transactions on our new EcoCash platform are now going through normally," said Mr Eddie Chibi, the CEO of EcoCash's parent company Cassava Smartech Zimbabwe.
"We are however currently seized with clearing a backlog of transactions, particularly those arising from third-party integrations, and continue to ask for our customers' patience as we work to clear this last hurdle," Mr Chibi said.
EcoCash carried out a major upgrade of its platform a week ago. The company says the new platform is more secure, faster, has better system availability, greater capacity and improved user experience.
Mr Chibi said he was aware of the queues that had built up in shops yesterday (on Monday), as customers sought front-office resolution of their queries.
In a media update late last week, Mr Chibi said services such as send money, airtime recharge for self and for others, some banking services, merchant payments using merchant codes, cashing in and cashing out, customer balance enquiries, payroll, mobile business wallet services, remittances and agents service were now up and working normally.
He said EcoCash technical teams were working flat out with their international platform provider Comviva Mahindra to iron out outstanding issues and addressing the customer experience.
